A member of the Greeley-Weld Bomb Squad takes the motorized bomb-defusing robot back to its tranport vehicle. The robot was used by police to gain entry into a home that a 32-year-old LaSalle man had barricaded himself into.

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A 32-year-old LaSalle man was arrested early Wednesday after he was shot while exchanging gunfire with officers from the Weld County SWAT team.

Jeffrey Plahn was taken to North Colorado Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, LaSalle Police Chief Carl Harvey said. He was expected to be treated and released from the hospital and then booked into Weld County Jail late Wednesday.

Harvey said police responded to the 900 block of Dove Hill Road at 10:31 p.m. Tuesday after they received a call of a suicidal man. Plahn had barricaded himself inside the home owned by his parents. His parents and a grandparent left the home before everything went down, Harvey said.

A neighbor, who asked not to be identified, said police came to his home around midnight and told him to take his family to a far remote corner of the home and stay there until further notice. The man said police returned to let them out at 7 a.m. Police evacuated homes directly adjacent to Plahn’s.

“It went on all night,” the neighbor said. “I don’t know if they were gun shots we heard, but there were a lot of loud bangs.”

Plahn has one previous arrest for a DUI in Jefferson County in 2008.

Harvey said he was not involved in the negotiations with Plahn, so he didn’t know if he was trying to get the police to shoot him, such as in a suicide-by-cop situation, but he said the call came in as a domestic issue involving an ex-girlfriend.

The neighbor, who just recently moved into the Dove Hill subdivision, said something like this was the last thing he expected when he bought his home.

The quiet area is in one of LaSalle’s newer subdivisions on the southwest side of the community. Most lots are empty with many homes still under construction and empty farmland surrounding the homes.

On Wednesday morning, however, all but one of the four houses in the cul-de-sac was roped off with crime tape while investigators searched through the evidence, which was strewn across the street. It included a police ballistic shield that appeared to contain damage from gunshots.

It is not known who the officers were that fired the shots injuring Plahn. The case remains under investigation.

Three departments, LaSalle, Weld County and Greeley-Weld SWAT, responded to the call.

Harvey said no officers were injured. The Greeley-Weld Bomb Squad was also called in to assist with entry into the home, Harvey said.

“We used the robot to gain entry, so it would not jeopardize any officers,” Harvey said. “If we ran into him with full artillery, we did not want anyone hurt.”

Harvey said several units of tear gas were also used to try to get Plahn out.